Associations to the word «Jowl»

Wiktionary

JOWL, noun. The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
JOWL, noun. The cheek; especially the cheek meat of a hog.
JOWL, verb. (obsolete) (transitive) To throw, dash, or knock.
JOWL, noun. A fold of fatty flesh under the chin, around the cheeks, or lower jaw (as a dewlap, wattle, crop, or double chin).
JOWL, noun. Cut of fish including the head and adjacent parts

Dictionary definition

JOWL, noun. The jaw in vertebrates that is hinged to open the mouth.
JOWL, noun. A fullness and looseness of the flesh of the lower cheek and jaw (characteristic of aging).

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats